GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 260
Memory: 896Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jun 2008
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Aug 2012
GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 260

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 660 Ti

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GTX 660 Ti
GPU NameGT200 (G200-100-A2)vsGK104 (GK104-300-KD-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size576 mm²vs294 mm²
Transistors1,400 millionvs3,540 million
Shaders192vs1344
Compute Units8vs7
Core clock576 MHzvs915 MHz
ROPs28vs24
TMUs64vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width448 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed999 MHz
1998 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size896 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 260GeForce GTX 660 Ti
TDP182 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date16 Jun 2008vs16 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    16.10 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    25.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 260
    36.90 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    102.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 260
    112.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 260
    476.90 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    2460.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better